BERRYHILL: Twenty-one-year-old Brendan Shea pleaded guilty to attempted theft of a bicycle in High Street, Tunstall, on April 2 and dishonestly making a false presentation on the price of items in a supermarket at Asda, Tunstall, on April 15.

Magistrates at North Staffordshire Justice Centre handed the defendant a six-month conditional discharge.

Shea, formerly of Tiverton Road, Berryhill, and now of Burslem, was also ordered to pay £85 costs and a £15 victim surcharge.

TUNSTALL: Drink-driver Martin Lightfoot, of Carlton Drive, Tunstall, has been banned from the roads for 17 months.

He gave a reading of 63 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath against a legal limit of 35 micrograms.

Magistrates at North Staffordshire Justice Centre also fined him £300 with £85 costs and a £30 victim surcharge.

NEWCASTLE: Thirty-nine-year-old David Birchall, of London Road, Newcastle, is accused of stealing from a motor vehicle on April 13 and using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent at Bentilee on the same date. Magistrates at North Staffordshire Justice Centre adjourned the case until May 30.

BASFORD: Antonia Lakatos, of Gladstone Street, Basford, is charged with theft of alcohol and clothing worth £345.15 from Asda, Wolstanton.

The 35-year-old is also accused of going equipped for theft with an item used for de-tagging shop merchandise on March 31. Magistrates at North Staffordshire justice Centre adjourned the case until May 30 to allow for an interpreter to be arranged.

KIDSGROVE: Graham Murray, aged 30, of Victoria Avenue, Kidsgrove, is charged with possession of amphetamine, possession of a home-made knuckle duster, driving without insurance and otherwise than in accordance with a licence on May 4. Magistrates at North Staffordshire Justice Centre adjourned the case until June 6.